Zomia Garden: Botanical Imaginaries of the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains
<p>Today I am speaking with writer and image maker Yutong Lin whose research within the Emerging Curator Residency Programme at the CCA in Montreal has resulted in – among other things – a publication titled <em>Zomia Garden</em>. The book traces the legacies of botanical exploration in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountain chain, in a region referred to as Zomia—the world’s largest area historically inhabited by peoples not governed by a nation-state. In her research, Lin insists on a Zomian perspective: foregrounding oral traditions, ritual practices, and Indigenous worldviews that resisted imperial assimilation and continue to animate the landscape today.</p>
Host: Irene de Craen
Guest: Yutong Lin
Part of: Errant Podcast